Tomorrow evening, I am scheduled to give a talk and offer guidance to a Zen community in Turku, the former capital of Finland. I am very happy and honored to

Simon Rattle can be seen in a slight blur just behind the conductor’s podium, cradling a bouquet of flowers as he engages one of four standing ovations. Truth be told,

Good morning from Graz, Austria. I travelled southward here on an 8-hour train ride to visit and confer with Yorae (Pablo) and Do Tzong, two of my closest and most

What vast unspeakable universes are carried on those two legs, in that street, in that head…?

“The dourness and severity of Mahler’s mouth are, nevertheless, immediately transformed into their opposite when anything excites his good-natured and humorous laughter. You cannot imagine a more naive, hearty, Homerically

While in Budapest to attend the performance of a group of Korean musicians, I stopped in at Dad’s office — the Budapest Opera House — for a brief tour. It

During the pandemic lockdowns, when public performances were canceled, many orchestral musicians began playing symphonies online, recorded through Zoom or something. Entire symphonies were performed this way, each performer located